2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 57th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 28 and continues into November 2015. The season culminated with the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2015. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition. The defending champions were Virginia who defeated UCLA 0–0 to win its seventh NCAA soccer title. The season concluded with Stanford defeating Clemson 4–0 to win its first championship.
Changes from 2014
Coaching changes
New programs
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, created for the 2015–16 school year with the merger of the University of Texas–Pan American and University of Texas at Brownsville, added the sport to the Division I athletic program it inherited from UTPA. Although UTB had a highly successful NAIA men's soccer team, the UTRGV program was created essentially from scratch, with an entirely new coaching staff and only two UTB players remaining in the UTRGV program. UTRGV also inherited UTPA's membership in the Western Athletic Conference.
Discontinued programs
Conference realignment
| School | Previous Conference | New Conference |
| Northern Kentucky | Atlantic Sun Conference | Horizon League |
NJIT, previously the only Division I basketball independent, played the 2014 season as a single-sport member of the Sun Belt Conference. Although NJIT replaced Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun Conference in July 2015, the men's soccer team remained in the Sun Belt for the 2015 season due to contractual commitments to that league. NJIT men's soccer will join the A-Sun in 2016.
Additionally, the 2015 season was the last for Coastal Carolina in the Big South Conference. The Chanticleers will join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016 in all sports except football, with that team joining the conference a year later. The arrival of Coastal Carolina will maintain the Sun Belt at six men's soccer members, preserving the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth.
Season overview
Pre-season polls
Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2015.Regular season
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Standings
Major upsets
In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.| Date | Winner | Score | Loser |
| August 28 | @ UC Santa Barbara | 1–0 | #8 Stanford |
| August 30 | @ Oregon State | 1–0 | #9 Michigan State |
| August 31 | @ South Florida | 2–0 | #3 Georgetown |
| September 3 | @ Lipscomb | 2–1 | #10 Xavier |
| September 4 | Akron | 1–0 | @ #12 Georgetown |
| September 4 | @ Omaha | 1–0 | # 13 UC Irvine |
| September 6 | Virginia Tech | 3–1 | @ #10 Xavier |
| September 7 | Akron | 3–2 | @ #6 Maryland |
| September 13 | UC Riverside | 2–1 | @ #8 UCLA |
| September 13 | @ Penn State | 1–0 | #10 Indiana |
| September 15 | Xavier | 1–0 | @ #2 Notre Dame |
| September 15 | #20 Elon | 1–0 | @ #7 Wake Forest |
| September 17 | @ Portland | 1–0 | #8 Oregon State |
| September 22 | @ South Carolina | 3–1 | #8 Elon |
| September 22 | @ Gonzaga | 2–1 | #13 Oregon State |
| September 23 | @ #25 Georgetown | 2–1 | #11 Maryland |
| September 24 | @ Seattle | 2–1 | #10 Washington |
| September 25 | @ South Carolina | 2–1 | #7 New Mexico |
| September 25 | Seattle | 2–1 | @ #13 Oregon State |
| September 30 | @ William & Mary | 4–1 | #10 Elon |
| October 4 | UCLA | 3–2 | @ #15 Washington |
| October 9 | @ Boston College | 2–1 | #10 Virginia |
| October 11 | @ UNC Asheville | 3–2 | #4 Coastal Carolina |
| October 14 | @ Sacramento State | 5–2 | #14 UC Santa Barbara |
| October 17 | @ FIU | 2–1 | #9 Old Dominion |
| October 17 | @ Cal Poly | 3–2 | #14 UC Santa Barbara |
| October 20 | @ Duke | 2–1 | #10 Elon |
| October 28 | Xavier | 2–1 | @ #1 Creighton |
| October 30 | @ Boston College | 2–1 | #12 Syracuse |
| October 31 | @ UConn | 2–1 | #11 South Florida |
| October 31 | @ South Carolina | 3–1 | #13 Old Dominion |
| November 1 | #25 UCLA | 4–2 | @ #6 Akron |
| October 2 | @ Washington''' | 2–1 | #4 Stanford |
Statistics
Individuals
Last update on December 14, 2015.
Last update on December 14, 2015.
Last update on December 14, 2015
Last update on December 14, 2015
Last update on December 14, 2015
Last update on December 14, 2015
Teams
Last update on December 14, 2015
Last update on December 14, 2015
Last update on December 14, 2015
Attendances
| Team | Home average |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3,844 |
| UConn | 3,504 |
| Creighton | 3,297 |
| Maryland | 3,203 |
| Wake Forest | 2,720 |
| Louisville | 2,663 |
| Clemson | 2,648 |
| Cal Poly | 2,488 |
| South Carolina | 2,245 |
| Akron | 2,186 |
| Indiana | 1,994 |
| Saint Louis | 1,915 |
| UCLA | 1,858 |
| Virginia | 1,810 |
| New Mexico | 1,691 |
| Utah Valley | 1,590 |
| Portland | 1,548 |
| Penn St. | 1,546 |
| UMBC | 1,543 |
| Kentucky | 1,489 |
| Syracuse | 1,316 |
| North Carolina | 1,174 |
| Stanford | 1,174 |
| SIUE | 1,157 |
| Elon | 1,155 |
| Notre Dame | 1,092 |
| Virginia Tech | 1,040 |
| Grand Canyon | 1,038 |
| Boston U. | 1,032 |
| UNCG | 1,030 |
| Ohio St. | 1,027 |
| Georgetown | 958 |
| Michigan | 951 |
| Michigan St. | 942 |
| Air Force | 941 |
| Butler | 932 |
| Charlotte | 924 |
| Milwaukee | 918 |
| Binghamton | 915 |
| UNCW | 901 |
| Dartmouth | 894 |
| Furman | 876 |
| South Florida | 871 |
| Yale | 862 |
| UAB | 856 |
| Washington | 816 |
| St. John's | 811 |
| North Carolina St. | 802 |
| CSU Bakersfield | 800 |
| Cincinnati | 793 |